History Characters / MentalOmegaSoviets

* LogicalWeakness: As powerful as the Chinese are, they also have a major weakness: their '''mobility'''. Chinese units are sluggish at best, meaning they're easy to outrun or ambush if they stray too far out of line. But this weakness also extends out to a strategic level. It takes a long time for the Chinese to build up the Critical Mass for a tank charge, and during that they're valuable to raids and harassment attacks. They're also hampred by a lack of long range artillery.

* [[IHaveYourWife We Have Your Family]]: [[AllThereInTheManual According to her bio entry on the Mental Omega website]], she is being forced to stay in service to the Chinese army by having the lives of her family threatened.

* LogicalWeakness: As powerful as the Chinese are, they also have a major weakness: their '''mobility'''. Chinese units are sluggish at best, meaning they're easy to outrun or ambush if they stray too far out of line. But this weakness also extends out to a strategic level: it takes a long time for the Chinese to build up the Critical Mass for a tank charge.

** In earlier versions of 3.0, Qilin Tanks used to gain an "overcharge" effect (speed boost) whenever they were near a Nuclear Power Plant, complete with steam venting from the tanks. However, this was removed in later versions.

* FactionCalculus: The Powerhouse to the extreme of the Soviet subfactions, with access to heavy war machines like the Qilin Heavy Tank (the heaviest MBT in the game), Nuwa Cannon (a huge, slow nuclear siege cannon) and the Centurion Siege Crawler (an enormous robot walker armed with a 400mm artillery cannon).

!!Qilin Heavy Tank

* MinMaxing: In-Universe example. The Chinese spent years trying to iron out the problems inherent in the Heavy Tank design without much success. Eventually they gave up and decided to Munchkin it- maximizing it's durability and firepower at the cost mobility, then building their entire strategy around it as per Soviet Doctrin.

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Chitzkoi is last seen guarding his master Volkov's corpse from Epsilon forces.]]

* StoneWall: Lorewise, the Chinese mainland is practically impossible to break through by force. [[spoiler:To the point that the Epsilon Army makes no meaningful advances towards them until the Mental Omega Device is activated. Ironically, the Russians and the Latin Confederation did succeed in invading their Military HQ at Shanghai but they did not push the conflict any further after the operation at Kashmir.]]

* ILoveNuclearPower:
** They have access to some of the most advanced nuclear weaponry in the game. Their version of the Soviet Desolators -- the Eradicators -- are far more powerful; the Nuwa Cannon fires radioactive projectiles and they can irradiate their units to damage nearby enemies.
** In earlier versions of 3.0, Qilin Tanks used to gain an "overcharge" effect (speed boost) whenever they were near a Nuclear Power Plant, complete with steam venting from the tanks. However, this was removed in later versions.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Krukov is armed with a Radiation gun and will melt infantry like a Desolator.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Their Rad Cannons shoot radiation, and in case of the Eradicators', leak radiation and constantly damage any nearby units.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Armed with a pair Rad cannons.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Armed with dual Rad cannons.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Shoots highly radioactive shells from its atomic cannon.

* StoneWall: Lorewise, the Chinese mainland is practically impossible to break through by force. [[spoiler:To the point that the Epsilon Army makes no meaningful advances towards them until the Mental Omega Device is activated.]]

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[[Characters/MentalOmegaAllies Allied Nations]] | [[Characters/MentalOmegaSoviets Soviet Union]] | [[Characters/MentalOmegaEpsilon Epsilon Army]] | [[Characters/MentalOmegaFoehn Foehn Revolt]] -] ]] ]]

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* SuperiorSuccessor: Both Tesla Troopers and Shock Troopers are both direct upgrades of the old Shock Trooper used in the Second Great War (Red Alert 1). They are faster, even more durable and much cheaper to deploy[[note]]Tesla Troopers and Shock Troopers costs respectively 450 and 500 credits each to deploy while the old Shock Troopers cost 900 credits each[[/note]] than the old infantry.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Of the Flamethrower infantry used by the Soviets in the Second Great War (Red Alert 1), being far more durable, faster and more practical than the old infantry.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: In the original ''Red Alert: Aftermath'', The mission where Volkov was captured by the Allies had 3 outcomes, determined by how long it took the player to reach the objective. In the Mod's timeline the "berserk" ending was made cannon.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: In the original ''Red Alert: Aftermath'', The mission where Volkov was captured by the Allies had 3 outcomes, determined by how long it took the player to reach the objective. In the Mod's timeline the "bersek" ending was made cannon.

* CompositeCharacter: The ''Mental Omega'' incarnation of the Apocalypse Tank possess many characteristics of others super-heavy tanks in the ''[[Creator/WestwoodStudios Westwood's]]'' games. Its anti-ground weapons are effective against all units, and can use its tusk missiles against ground units, just like the Mammoth Tank in ''Red Alert 1'' and ''Tiberian Dawn''; it attacks with blue energy weapons, just like the Harkonnen Devastator from ''Dune 2000'' and ''VideoGame/EmperorBattleForDune''; finally, its ability to heal nearby infantry units resembles the Overlord Tank's ability to include a Propaganda Tower in ''Generals'', the only difference being that the Overlord Tank can heal vehicles as well. In a way, the ''Mental Omega'' Apocalypse Tank is a sort of a "RevisitingTheRoots" of the dual-barreled tanks of the ''[[Creator/WestwoodStudios Westwood's]]'' games, combined into one unit.

* PoorMansSubstitute: The Catastrophe Tank (as the name implies) is a more cost-effective and inferior version of the Apocalypse Tank, with only one gun barrel and only one rocket launcher, but making up for it by being able to have a single infantry garrison it.